华侨商人陈启源●杨金帮陈启源在近代史上。是一位较有名气的华侨商人,他于1873年创立的“继昌隆缫丝厂”是中国最早的近代民族资本工业企业之一。读者诸君在现下的学校历史教科书中,可以看到这件事的记载。陈启源先生算是上了历史的“排行榜”的栏。陈启源,广东南海人,早年曾两次赴童生试,父亲死后,放弃科举,以农桑为业,后成为商人。一八五九年,陈之兄在南洋经商致富后,携陈启源同到南洋从商,遍游各埠。陈启源在安南经商时。见到当地丝厂采用法国机器缫丝,产品精良,便启意回国经营机器缫丝业,当时,广东南海、顺德一带盛产丝茧。陈启源一八七二年携资回国后,即在南海简村筹建机器缫丝厂,投资七千余两银。该厂投产前期,生产没有完整计划,只是边做、边想、边改。厂里女工均系本村人,陈启源亲自教授机器缫丝的方法。后来,生产逐渐走入正轨,规模不断扩大,厂里 Overseas Chinese businessman Chen Qiyuan ● Yang Jinbang and Chen Qiyuan in modern history. Is a more famous overseas Chinese businessman, he founded in 1873 “Jichang Changlong silk factory” is one of China’s earliest modern national capital industrial enterprises. Readers can see the record of this incident in the current school history textbook. Mr. Chen Qiyuan has been on the column of “top charts” in history. Chen Qiyuan, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, went to the child test two times in his early years. After his father died, he gave up the imperial examinations and took farming mulberry as his business, and later became a businessman. In 1859, after Chen Zhiyuan got rich in business in Nanyang, he brought Chen Qiyuan to Nanyang to go for business and travel around. When Chen Qiyuan was doing business in Annan. After seeing that the local silk factory used the French machine to reel silk, the product was excellent, and they wished to return to the country to operate the machine reeling industry. At that time, silkworms were produced in the areas of Nanhai and Shunde in Guangdong. When Chen Qiyuan returned to China with funds in 1872, he set up a machine reeling factory in the South China Sea Jane Village, investing more than 7,000 yuan and two silver coins. In the early stage of the plant’s production, there was no complete plan for production. It was just doing, thinking and changing. The female workers in the factory are all villagers. Chen Qiyuan personally taught the method of reeling the machine. Later, the production gradually came on track and the scale continued to expand.